Toto of the Byways - Cast

Toto of the Byways (1916)
Short | Short, Comedy, Drama

Toto of the Byways (1916)

Short | Short, Comedy, Drama

Paul Bentley, an English artist studying in Paris, has secretly married his model. His father sends for him to return as his mother is ill. Paul confesses his marriage. His father insists that it be kept a secret from his mother, and that ...See morePaul Bentley, an English artist studying in Paris, has secretly married his model. His father sends for him to return as his mother is ill. Paul confesses his marriage. His father insists that it be kept a secret from his mother, and that he remain until she is better. Letters come for Paul from his wife, but the father destroys them. She is reduced to poverty. Pierre, an Apache of the slums, has been one of her friends. It is to him that she goes when she is about to become a mother. He takes her in and cares for her. She dies, confiding to him her baby, a girl, with the request that she he brought up as a boy in order to avoid the unhappiness which her mother has experienced from her relations with men. Pierre promises. Sixteen years pass and the baby has grown into an accomplished young sneak-thief. She is called Toto. She visits the art exhibition, where a painting by Harry Sheldon is hung, and is caught by him trying to take his watch out of his pocket. He pities Toto and takes her to his home where he promises "to make a man" of her, think that she is a boy. One day Sheldon reads of the presence in Paris of Paul Bentley, now one of the most famous of painters, to whose teaching he owes all that he has learned of his art. Toto pays a last visit to the Apaches, her friends, and overhears their plans to steal Bentley's painting. They say that once Toto is introduced into his studio the rest will be simple. She pretends to agree. Sheldon takes her with him to call on Bentley, and he shows them the famous picture. It is a portrait from memory of his lost wife and her baby. Sheldon sends Toto home, and she goes to prepare her plans. She dresses up a girl. She has arranged with the Apaches to give them a signal from the window of Bentley's studio at ten. At nine o'clock she goes to the studio and cuts the picture from its frame. Pierre arrives and takes the picture from Toto. He recognizes her mother and, shocked, he falls to the floor. The butler, whom Toto lied upon entering, has freed himself and comes in. Toto runs toward the window with the painting. The butler fires and wounds her, but she makes her escape. Bentley and Sheldon enter and find Pierre. He is dazed and says, "The painting, it was Suzanne and the child whom he never knew." He promises to take Bentley to his child. Toto returns to Sheldon's studio, having removed her girl's dress in the garden, Sheldon comes in and finds her fainting from her wound. Sheldon places her on a couch and cares for her wound. Bentley and Pierre come in and Pierre makes the explanation which results in the disappearance of "Toto of the Byways" forever. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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4 cast members

Name	Known for
Edith Roberts Toto Toto See fewer	Speed Mad (1925)
Johnnie Walker Paul Bentley Paul Bentley See fewer	The Spirit of the USA (1924)
Harry Benham Harry Sheldon Harry Sheldon See fewer	The Dancer's Peril (1917)
Charles Slattery John Bentley John Bentley See fewer	Dream Street (1921)